Rashomon of Hongshi

A modern legal scholar is thrust back into the Yongzheng era as a lowly clerk in the Imperial Clan Court, just as the Third Prince Hongshi is found dead. Determined to uncover the truth, he interrogates multiple witnesses—only to receive five starkly contradictory accounts. As he digs deeper, he collides with a bureaucratic machinery that arrogantly manufactures a dignified lie, proving that in a system where face outweighs justice, memory itself becomes a silent accomplice to tragedy.